Civil rights meets biotechnology in a instructional activity that scrutinizes the collection of DNA of citizens who have been arrested, but not yet convicted of a crime. Real-life cases are examined in which the DNA of a relative was...

The city of Los Angeles' 1979 Special Order 40 states: "LAPD officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person." After reading a fact sheet that details the history of Special Order...

Understanding the soldier's experiences during World War I sometimes takes a newscast. Learners see the importance of understanding multiple points of view with a newscast project surrounding the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Compare and...

5 Broken Cameras, the award-winning documentary nominated for a 2013 Academy Award and winner of the Sundance 2012 Directors Award is the focus of a resource packet that includes a lesson plan, discussion guide, reading lists, background...

What would your class members say to the opportunity to take two years off of school between grades 10 and 11? Examine the economic concepts of costs, benefits, and unintended consequences with this unique and engaging approach.

Resistance to the Holocaust took on many forms. Learners explore the passive and active resistance of Jewish people who continued their practices and observances, as well as organized resistance against the evils of the Nazis. An...

Can any good come from acts of evil? The 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and the eventual outcomes of the tragedy, are the focus of a lesson that asks groups to examine primary source documents...

Give young mathematicians a chance to demonstrate their understanding of basic probability with this series of worksheets. Presented with different situations involving dice and decks of cards, students must correctly determine the...

In this single and compound event instructional activity, learners read given statements and determine the probability of each event. Statements include data dealing with cards in a deck, coins and dice. Students solve both simple and...

In this single and compound events worksheet, 8th graders solve 10 different problems that contain various single and compound events. First, they determine the probability of selecting an ace and a king without a replacement. Then,...

In this probability worksheet, 9th graders solve 10 different problems that complement a particular event. First, they determine the probability of landing on a sector that is not black after spinning the spinner. Then, students...

In this single and compound events instructional activity, 8th graders solve 10 different problems related to various single and compound events. First, they determine the probability of getting ace and a king card without replacement....

In this independent events probability worksheet, students solve 10 different problems that include determining the probability of certain events described. First, they determine the probability of selecting at random a number divisible...

In this probability worksheet, students read story problems and compute the probability of specified events. This one-page worksheet contains six mutually exclusive scenarios.

What better way to get your class interested in history than to embody important historical characters and make events come to life? Stage a realistic mock trial of the British soldiers accused of murdering five Bostonians after the...

In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate preposition of time to fill in twenty-four blanks that make each sentence grammatically correct.

Is your class looking forward to an upcoming event or holiday? Print links to a paper chain that inspire kids to use their waiting time to complete creative and fun activities.

The battle between the Free Staters and the Republicans in the 1922-1923 Irish Civil War provides the backdrop for “The Sniper.” Individuals prepare for a discussion of Liam O’Flaherty’s tragic short story by completing a study guide...

In this historical events instructional activity, students analyze political cartoons featuring the different faces of Uncle Sam. Students respond to 5 talking point questions.

Students list the five best films of the year, in their opinion; brainstorm a list of criteria for a "good" film. They compare their own lists with the nominees in this year's Academy Awards; consider patterns in Academy Award winners of...

In this economics worksheet, high schoolers respond to 11 short answer questions regarding the Great Depression and the stock market crash.

Hunkering down in the trenches of World War I, Leland Linman decided to write a journal about his experiences. By reading Linman's entries in the fourth installment of an eight-part lesson series, scholars get a firsthand look at life in...

Class members investigate the Jim Crow Laws, Executive Order 9066, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the Indian Removal Act to gather information about not only the challenges encountered by diverse groups of Americans, but their...

MAD about statistics? In the seventh chapter of an eight-part seventh-grade workbook series, learners develop probability models and use statistics to draw inferences. In addition, learners play games and conduct experiments to determine...